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Madness Heart Press @madnessheartpress.bsky.social · 12d
We have FOUR titles nominated for Wonderland Awards! Go vote: Nympho Shark Fuck Frenzy by Susan Snyder and Christine Morgan, The Expectant Mothers Disinformation Handbook by Robert Guffey, Kennel by Garret Cook, and Inappropriate Toasts for All Occasions by Michael Allen Rose! tinyurl.com/3cbhf59s
Cover for Nypho Shark Fuck Frenzy by Christine Morgan & Susan Snyder Cover to The Expectant Mother Disinformation Handbook by Robert Guffey Cover for Kennel by Garret Cook Cover for Inappropriate Toasts for All Occasions by Michael Allen Rose
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Madness Heart Press @madnessheartpress.bsky.social · 3h
Brand new: PINS by Jessica McHugh! With cash and weed dwindling Birdie does what any 21-year-old woman would: gets a job dancing at a strip club / bowling alley called PINS and, as murders occur, begins to question her sexuality. #WritingCommunity a.co/d/2b0zkgJ
Art card featuring a dancer wound around a stripper's pole holding a severed leg. Text reads "PINS by Jessica McHugh" with the I in PINS represented by a stylized bowling pin.
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Madness Heart Press @madnessheartpress.bsky.social · 1d
BRAND NEW! Ten Words For A Wicked Woman by the inimitable Susan Snyder is out now! This book is a rant against our march backward into patriarchy. It's a gander at hypocrisy and inner turmoil. Let's dig into the pain, shall we? #Books #WritingCommunity a.co/d/cVw4LAH
Art card: a close-up photograph of a woman's dreamy-looking eye surrounded by a swirl of hair. Text reads "Ten Words For A Wicked Woman by Susan Snyder"
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Horrific Scribblings @horrificscribs.bsky.social · 1d
Just a reminder... submit! Send us your most twisted nightmares!

horrificscribblings.com/submissions/

#callforsubmissions #transgressive #darkfiction #horror #darkscifi #darkfantasy #darkpoetry #quiethorror #splatterpunk
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Duotrope @duotrope.com · 1d
Sublimation Annual Contest (Poetry; Fantasy, Horror, SF; pays) opened to fee-based poetry submissions. https://duotrope.com... #amwriting
Re-opening: Sublimation Annual Contest
Sublimation Annual Contest (Poetry; Fantasy, Horror, SF; pays) opened to fee-based poetry submissions. https://duotrope.com/contest/sublimation-annual-contest-37958 #amwriting
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Madness Heart Press @madnessheartpress.bsky.social · 2d
NEW! The Expectant Mother Disinformation Handbook by Robert Guffey, a curiosity disguised as a guide for the pregnant! Replete with footnotes by imaginary obstetricians, Guffey explores the absurdity of postmodern motherhood. #Books a.co/d/1WFOsAQ
Art card featuring a psychedelic side-view of a pregnant person surrounded by a typewriter, goggles, a butterfly, a centipede, and a talon. Text reads "The Expectant Mother Disinformation Handbook by Robert Guffey"
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Cursed Morsels @cursedmorsels.bsky.social · 3d
As we fly right past 200 submissions for our FLESH zine, I encourage folks to check out our previous horror and Weird fiction zines, all of which rule. You can get 15 of them for $15, plus shipping!
www.cursedmorselspress.com/product/zine...
Zine Freak Bundle (Issues #1 through 15) | Cursed Morsels Press
The first fifteen issues of our zine for $15, including Landlord Lair, Spooky Sexy Soapbox, Florida Man, Reviews of Films That Don't Exist, Nightmare Birds, All Cops Are B____, My Morbid Childhood...
www.cursedmorselspress.com
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Horror Tree @horrortree.com · 2d
Taking Submissions: Horror Anthology Volume IV and V
horrortree.com/taking-submi...
Deadline: December 31st, 2025
Payment: Contributor's copy
Theme: EXTREME Horror
#WritingCommunity #AmWriting
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D'Argento Alexandro @dargentoalexandro.bsky.social · 3d
Just grabbed the first one! If I can't get my group to actually play Mörk Borg then at least I can read it!
#TTRPG #RPGLIT #ReadBooks
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Madness Heart Press @madnessheartpress.bsky.social · 3d
Preorder your hard copy, out in one week! HOWLING OF THE UNFORTUNATE DEAD is the second book in John Baltisberger's MÖRK BORG novel series! Journey to the pitch black darkness of the Dying Lands... #MörkBorg #Books #HorrorCommunity #WritingCommunity madnessheart.press/product/howl...
Art card featuring a skeletal knight, pierced by many blades, resting his hands on a bloodstained broadsword. Text reads "Howling of the Unfortunate Dead: A Novel Compatible With Mörk Borg by John Baltisberger"
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Madness Heart Press @madnessheartpress.bsky.social · 3d
Preorder your hard copy, out in one week! HOWLING OF THE UNFORTUNATE DEAD is the second book in John Baltisberger's MÖRK BORG novel series! Journey to the pitch black darkness of the Dying Lands... #MörkBorg #Books #HorrorCommunity #WritingCommunity madnessheart.press/product/howl...
Art card featuring a skeletal knight, pierced by many blades, resting his hands on a bloodstained broadsword. Text reads "Howling of the Unfortunate Dead: A Novel Compatible With Mörk Borg by John Baltisberger"
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Madness Heart Press @madnessheartpress.bsky.social · 4d
Brand new: Squirming All The Way Up by Joey Powell! Two brothers reunite in rural Virginia to reconcile after their split years ago. For one, it's a chance to indoctrinate his brother into the Fellowship of the First Divine. #Horror #Books madnessheart.press/product/squi...
Art card in the style of a scuffed 1980s paperback: a priest wearing a cross and Roman collar extends hands filled with wriggling worms. Text reads "Squirming All The Way Up by Joey Powell"
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The Hollow Archives @hollowarchives.bsky.social · 5d
Submissions are open.

Horror. Fantasy. The strange and the sea-bound.

High school writers (ages 14–18)
Deadline Nov 30
The Hollow Archives await: HollowArchives.com

#HollowArchives #WritingContest #HighSchoolWriters #HorrorCommunity #SpeculativeFiction
The Hollow Archives - The Hollow Archives
Tales from the Black Sea submissions open! SUBMIT HERE! A space dedicated to showcasing the eerie, the unknown, and the extraordinary. The Hollow Archives hosts biannual writing contests in horror and...
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🦈 Liz, shark queen 👑 @thesharkqueen.com · 4d
We have room for a couple more submissions, y’all (if you haven’t heard back yet, it’s because it’s Monday but I’ll get back to you?! Horror or erotic horror or erotica, all welcome.
(No rape stories, please.)
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🦈 Liz, shark queen 👑 @thesharkqueen.com · 6d
Our backers are so amazing, we need to give them even more! Who wants in?
email submissions to [email protected] before 10/31!
We're putting together a zine for our amazing backers! We have room for 3 more erotic horror flash fics for the Curiouser & Curiouser project! 500 - 1000 words, and just like the stories, $0.10 /word. Ever wanted a reason to tell your scariest dirty story? I'll take and thank you for the privilege. The only catch is that I need it before the campaign ends, October 31st. The theme is MONSTERS Art is also welcome, paying $100 each for 2 drawings (already published is fine) As always, theft (AI) is not welcome.
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Madness Heart Press @madnessheartpress.bsky.social · 5d
Out now! Gush - Tales of Vaginal Horror by @ginaranalli.bsky.social! Portal of wonders and moon-linked mysticism. Creator of life. Object of desire. However much you sugarcoat it, nature can be gross. Messy, pungent, painful, and downright horrific. #Horror #Books tinyurl.com/GRGush
Art card featuring a painting of a vaginal-looking orchid disgorging a wad of moist stamen. Text reads "Gush: Tales of Vaginal Horror by Gina Ranalli"
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Lee Bailes @leebaileswriter.bsky.social · 5d
Call for #submissions for Halloween - tales of “Outsider Monsters” - by WATG dakria.substack.com/p/call-for-s...? - #Flashfiction under 1k words. Any genre is welcome gothic, surreal, #horror, #fantasy, absurd, or something unclassifiable—as long as it fits the theme. #authors
Call for Submissions – WATG Halloween 2025
Theme: Outsider Monsters - Flash fiction under 1,000 words - Deadline: 11 October 2025 - Publication Date: 31 October 2025
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Madness Heart Press @madnessheartpress.bsky.social · 6d
BRAND NEW: Bound With Briars by Charles R. Bernard! In a future dystopian American monarchy, inhuman experiments are carried out on prisoners in a pocket dimension. Now, however, a stranger has appeared to upset the balance. #WritingCommunity #Horror tinyurl.com/BoundWithBri...
Art card: a humanoid figure wearing soft, fungal-looking tan clothing and holding a soft-brimmed cowboy hat stands before a desolate background. His head from the eyes up ascends in pinkish-white ribbons of vapor. Text reads "Bound With Briars by Charles R. Bernard"
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🦈 Liz, shark queen 👑 @thesharkqueen.com · 6d
Our backers are so amazing, we need to give them even more! Who wants in?
email submissions to [email protected] before 10/31!
We're putting together a zine for our amazing backers! We have room for 3 more erotic horror flash fics for the Curiouser & Curiouser project! 500 - 1000 words, and just like the stories, $0.10 /word. Ever wanted a reason to tell your scariest dirty story? I'll take and thank you for the privilege. The only catch is that I need it before the campaign ends, October 31st. The theme is MONSTERS Art is also welcome, paying $100 each for 2 drawings (already published is fine) As always, theft (AI) is not welcome.
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Die Laughing Magazine @dielaughingmag.bsky.social · 6d
Hey! Are you an artist? Is your work scary AND funny? Do you want to have your art on the cover of the most prestigious horror comedy publication we know of?

Great news! Die Laughing is accepting cover art submissions on an ongoing basis. Send us your art! dielaughingmag.com/c...
Composite mage of the covers of the first four issues of Die Laughing Magazine.
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Madness Heart Press @madnessheartpress.bsky.social · 7d
Brand new: PINS by Jessica McHugh! With cash and weed dwindling Birdie does what any 21-year-old woman would: gets a job dancing at a strip club / bowling alley called PINS and, as murders occur, begins to question her sexuality. #WritingCommunity a.co/d/2b0zkgJ
Art card featuring a dancer wound around a stripper's pole holding a severed leg. Text reads "PINS by Jessica McHugh" with the I in PINS represented by a stylized bowling pin.
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Horror Tree @horrortree.com · 8d
Taking Submissions: It Came From the Trailer Park: Vol 6
horrortree.com/taking-submi...
Submission Window: May 1st, 2025 - July 1st, 2025
Payment: Royalties
Theme: Horror Comedy creature feature with the sub-theme of Prison Planet Earth
#WritingCommunity #AmWriting
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freginold @freginold.bsky.social · 7d
these scifi/fantasy/horror journals opened to submissions this week:

- Crimson Quill Quarterly
- Flash Point Science Fiction
- Haven Spec
- Inner Worlds Zine
- MetaStellar Magazine
- parABnormal Magazine
- Perseid Prophecies
- Polar Borealis (for fiction)
- Solarpunk Magazine

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Madness Heart Press @madnessheartpress.bsky.social · 8d
BRAND NEW! Ten Words For A Wicked Woman by the inimitable Susan Snyder is out now! This book is a rant against our march backward into patriarchy. It's a gander at hypocrisy and inner turmoil. Let's dig into the pain, shall we? #Books #WritingCommunity a.co/d/cVw4LAH
Art card: a close-up photograph of a woman's dreamy-looking eye surrounded by a swirl of hair. Text reads "Ten Words For A Wicked Woman by Susan Snyder"
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Madness Heart Press @madnessheartpress.bsky.social · 9d
Preorder your hard copy, out on 10/15! HOWLING OF THE UNFORTUNATE DEAD is the second book in John Baltisberger's MÖRK BORG novel series! Bask in the bleak, pitch-black fantasy! #MörkBorg #Books #HorrorCommunity #WritingCommunity madnessheart.press/product/howl...
Art card featuring a skeletal knight, pierced by many blades, resting his hands on a bloodstained broadsword. Text reads "Howling of the Unfortunate Dead: A Novel Compatible With Mörk Borg by John Baltisberger"
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GossamerWight Literary Magazine @gossamerwight.com · 9d
WILL YOU BE SUBMITTING? Scan me with your phone. #SubmissionCall #Submissions #Anthology #Anthologies #LiteraryMagazine #LitMag #GossamerWight #Writer #Writing #Writers #WritingCommunity #FlashFiction #ShortStory #ShortStories #Horror #Weird #Supernatural #Speculative #Dystopian #Fantasy #Eerie.
A colour QR code which ,when scanned by a mobile phone, leads to the GossamerWight Literary Magazine Anthology page for "Everyday Eerie."
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Madness Heart Press @madnessheartpress.bsky.social · 10d
Out now! BLADEJOB, by #Splatterpunk maestro Lucas Mangum, is a #horror novella that grapples with #prowrestling, blood rituals, and time travel! Pick it up today! #Books #ExtremeHorror tinyurl.com/LMBladejob
Art card featuring a bloody-faced pro wrestler with broken teeth and the text "BLADEJOB by Lucas Mangum"
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Perseid Prophecies @perseidprophecies.bsky.social · 10d
That eldritch entity we lovingly call "the reading team" is slowly waking from its month-long slumber.

Submissions for our winter 2026 issue open tomorrow and remain open until November 30th!

#submissioncall #sciencefiction #fantasy #horror #sff #scifi #shortstory
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